Hi Ecologgers, I'm currently planning a year-long study of ithomiine (clearwing) butterfly abundance and niche- breadth in southern Peru, to begin this September. Los Amigos Biological Station (12°34'2.14"S 70° 5'56.15"W) in the southern Peruvian Amazon is one place I'm considering, but before I commit to a year there I need to be reasonably confident that I'll find ithomiines and their food plants (almost exclusively Solanaceae). Does anyone have experience working at Los Amigos, who can also comment on the abundance of these butterflies and importantly also plants in the Solanaceae? Know someone who does? Any information will be very helpful!
Cheers, Geoff --- Geoffrey R. Gallice NSF Graduate Fellow Dept. of Entomology and Nematology McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity University of Florida Email: [email protected] Website: https://sites.google.com/site/neotropicalbutterflies/
